VMworld 2011: Offering More G14 Classified Information from Storage Experts
Two of the mostly highly rated sessions presented at VMworld 2010 were TA8133: Best Practices to Increase Availability and Throughput for VMware & TA8623: Storage Super-Heavyweight Challenge. I believe part of the reason these two sessions were so highly rated was that they both presented the role and future direction of storage in a shared […]
Wikibon Survey – VMware Storage Integration
Running VMware on NetApp? Maybe you run on a traditional storage array? Wikibon is conducting a survey looking to determine what storage capabilities and integrations are valuable to you within your VMware environment. If you take a minute to share your thoughts, you might just win an iPad 2! The Wikibon Project, with it’s mission […]
Leading Change in the Storage Industry
One of the things I love about my current role at NetApp (beyond the great culture, people, and technologies) is the amount of time I spend meeting with customers, prospects, partners, analysts, and the online community to discuss the topic of virtualization and how it has changed everything from IT architectures to corporate business models. […]
Thoughts on 2011 – Technical Trends for Clouds
Recently, a number of us at NetApp were asked to share our thoughts around our expectations for 2011. The topics shared by thought leaders at NetApp from the likes of Val Bercovici to Jay Kidd ran the gamut from global economic conditions to ITaaS offerings to object-oriented storage architectures. As one might expect, the thoughts […]
IDC says your data will grow and grow and grow…
Did you get a chance to read “The Digital Universe Decade – Are You Ready?” published by IDC (May 2010)? This report is a follow-up from the 2007 report titled, “The Expanding Digital Universe”. I ask this question as I’m surprised by the number of individuals who are unaware of its existence. In fact I […]